When someone goes to prison, we don't expect it to be like attending a country club. The media often paints famous prisons like a stay at summer camp. The truth is that Texas prisons are FAR from any vacation. In fact, they are a business established to keep people in as long a possible and consider it a victory when someone returns.
These letters are written by those who have first-hand experience as a prisoner to the atrocities going on each day. They tell of inhumane treatment by those in charge to people that were entrusted to ensure basic rights as a human.
In the world we are taught from the time we’re children to trust police officers. Even if we weren’t taught this, I believe most people learn that it’s natural for most people to have trust in t...
Not many people will ever understand the effects of prison life, or what it does to someone to lose years or decades of their lives. Why there’s many who will say it’s just, and some cases I would...
Has anyone ever thought about the importance of family? In your minds go back in time to when you were a child, go back as far as you can remember. Think about your entire family structure, your grand...
The full expression is “the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.” Simply put, it means that the ideology or philosophy that is talk to the children will soon enough become the practice of s...
I have written several chapters called great escape where I poked fun at some moments in my life we are law-enforcement had me dead to the right, but I was able to somehow slip away and do it in such ...
In the vein of what I was saying in my last chapter, I have to ask, “when is enough enough?” When have there been enough apologies, pandering’s, payments in sentences before Black Lives Matter s...
After serving 15 1/2 years inside of the Texas prison system I am at a loss of words at everything I witnessed. There’s not a person alive who can lose that many years of their lives and not be affe...
I can remember the day I arrived at the Texas Department of criminal Justice. It was over 100°, I mean it was on fire! Around 50 of us left to Houston County Jail around five in the morning, and when...
I’m listening to the news on the radio, and again, as has been true for over two weeks now, I am pushed beyond the precipitate pure of disbelief at what I’m hearing. I watch the images emanating f...
Sometimes in life you never know how a certain situation you’re put in will change you forever. Whether the situation you face is good or bad, everyone will have an opportunity to grow from each exp...
Today is day five thousand three hundred fifty-two of my five thousand four hundred seventy-five-day sentence. If you think it looks long spelled out like that, you are to try living it. While I wait ...
